Advent Calendar 2023, Day 8. A big bottle of "Saison-style beer" for Friday. This is a 2018 vintage. The beer wears a turbid, pale gold yellow dress. Carbonation lives a long life, it just refuses to die. A small-bubbled off-white head elevates two fingers high and settles gradually down to a cute lace ring on the top. Otherwise the rim of the glass is clean. The olfactory provision is L-O-V-E-L-Y!! I find barnyard or horse stable, leather, brettanomyces, wheat malt and wheat flour. A proposal of durian, lime, wild chamomile and modest barrel notes are almost too shy to join the set. But there they are. Really interesting and intriguing. Almost at the edge of being stale. I 💛 the complexity of the scent. The gustatory profile... falls a bit short of the extraordinarily promising start. Daaamn. I was heading for 4.7–5.0 based on the fragrance but the taste can't exactly reach those levels. Well, anyway. I receive lemon zest and peel, lime, marginal leather, loads of yeast which is not brettanomyces but something else, whitepepper, perhaps raw gooseberry and peels of green grape. The wheat malty backbone is obvious. The diversity of the elements is applaudable, showing hence some complexity. I still would have loved more unpredictability and "stale notes of horse stable". The body is light to light-medium. The finish offers citrusy flavors, faint oak barrel, yeast and wheat malt. Some farmhousey vibes still tickle my taste receptors but move fast to the shadows and die. Forever solidary, I want to be forever solidary; do you really want to be the aftertaste forever? Forever, and ever. The mouthfeel is light-medium, earthy, reasonably funky, complex to some extent, very remotely herbal, even wild. Soft. The label says "tart" but I don't find this tart, moderately sour yes, but not tart. Unique! 💛💛💛